A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
沉默
Silence
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
当代保守主义在所有重要问题上都保持沉默,这显示出它在智力上的无能。
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
最好闭上嘴,让别人认为你是个傻瓜,而不是张开嘴消除所有的疑虑。
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment
真正的沉默是心灵的休息,是精神的休息,就像睡眠之于身体、营养和提神一样
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
沉默是朋友间真正的对话。重要的不是说,而是永远不需要说。
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
先知的话语写在地铁的墙上和公寓的大厅里,在寂静的声音中低语。
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
一个人如果觉得沉默和孤独无聊,那他自己就是一个无聊的人,没有任何值得考虑的东西。
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
当文字变得模糊时,我将用照片聚焦。当形象变得不合适时,我将满足于沉默。
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
有一种沉默,爱的孩子,它能表达一切,它所发出的声音比舌头所能发出的还要大。
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
在邪恶面前保持沉默本身就是邪恶的:上帝不会让我们无罪。不说话就是说话。不行动就是行动。
All other knowledge are only petty and trivial knowledge: The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
所有其他的知识都只是琐碎的知识:只有沉默的经历才是真正的、完美的知识。
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
橡树倒下时,整个森林都回响着它倒下的声音,但是,一阵不被人注意的微风,却在寂静中播下了一百颗橡子。
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
修正沉默是致命的;当你知道你犯了罪,而你的朋友什么也不说,避开你的眼睛。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
沉默是真正的智慧的最好回答。
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
运动之间的沉默只是为了让对立的两个人走到前面。
Silence is the virtue of fools.
沉默是愚人的美德。
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
到了下午,他们进入了一片土地——但是这片土地!一片笼罩在哀悼之中的土地,被巨大的柏树遮蔽,淹没了;爬行动物的土地,寂静,阴影,腐朽。
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
朋友是那种你可以一个人呆着,无事可做,想不出要说什么,在沉默中感到舒适的人。